Use this excerpt from "Araby" by James Joyce to answer the question. "Her dress swung as she moved her body and the soft rope of her hair tossed from side to side." What type of figurative language does Joyce use when he compares the girl’s hair to a “soft rope”?

a. personification

b. implied metaphor

c. metaphor

d. simile

1 answer

The correct answer is c. metaphor. In this excerpt, Joyce directly compares the girl's hair to a "soft rope" without using "like" or "as," which indicates that he is employing a metaphor.

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